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April 2017
Thursday Jumper Rounds
Starting April 20, 2017
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Kick off the Eventing season with a 3 day camp at the lovely
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September 23, 2016
Northern Alberta Learn to Coach Clinic and Coaching Evaluation
October 12 - 16, 2015 at Sandridge Stables
Dates: October 18-21 – Coaching Clinic
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September 10, 2016
Fall Show Announced!
2016 Sandridge Fall SchoolingShow
October 8, 2015
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August 27-28, 2016
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August 27 - 28, 2016
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Two days of Stadium and Cross-Country Jumping
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September 14, 2015
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October 3, 2015
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October 20, 2013
Equine Canada/AEF National Rider Level Testing
November 23, 2013 at Sandridge Stables
Equine Canada Rider Level Testing will be held November 23, 2013. It is a great program that helps riders to:
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March 2013
Equine Infection Anemia
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March 15, 2008
Well, it has been a while since my last email. I actually have had a crazy schedule what with teaching more people at the neighbors, competing at the events and HITS, and showing and buying horses. One of my US clients came down from Boston to look for an event horse, and happily I was able to find the perfect horse for her daughter over at Bruce Davidson's farm. I really enjoy helping someone find their perfect partner!
I have had the great pleasure of showing and coaching with Beth Underhill at the HITS jumper show in Ocala. She is an excellent coach and lots of fun to work with. Wrayna is a lovely jumper mare and we are doing the 3'6"'s this week. I feel very lucky to be competing on her, she is beautiful, careful and fun to ride!
The final event at Rocking Horse was last weekend and there was a trakehner (a big ditch with a log suspended over it) set up as fence 3 going away from home. –eeeek!!! With Banker's dislike for ditches, I was wondering if it was even worth walking the rest of the course! Luckily I did as he jumped it boldly and since we only had 1 stop at the hanging log he dumped me at last time, I considered it great progress! There was also quite a lot more to do with a coffin in combination with another jump, a bounce bank up with 3 strides to a coop and a roll top 3 strides before a drop into water with another roll top after the water on a bending line. All things considered it was quite a stiff Training course.
He is doing better and better in dressage, and this weekend was more rideable than ever before. Stadium was clear as usual – he hates to touch a rail. He Is really a nice horse and just needs to be produced properly. By the end of the summer, he will be doing Prelim.
I wasn't as happy with Legs's dressage this weekend as he seemed a little more distracted in the ring by the road, but he still scored mid 30's and placed 7th in the Open division. On cross-country, he opened up with some wonderful jumping, but then got a bit caught in the deep footing at the base of the hanging log and had a crappy, unnecessary stop. I just didn't support him enough and he got a bit stuck on the take off. Stadium was easy for him, and he feels almost ready to go Prelim. At least the stop with Legs made me feel better about Banker's stop!!
My call for help resulted in Danielle Ziehlke coming to the rescue. She flew down just before the last event and has been a wonderful help. I don't know how I could have managed without her this last week, so a big thanks to her for stepping in to help out like that.
Evan is coming down on Tuesday, and with the competitions wrapped up, at least for me, we are meeting with our kids and grandkids to have a long-awaited family holiday during Easter week, after which we will head home. I am getting anxious to get back to the stable and into the home routine and lessons again. We have a lot to look forward to this summer, with a great event calendar, rider testing, more farm improvements and lots of riding to do! I have missed everyone and wish you could all come with me to experience the winter with your horse in Ocala. Maybe next year!
We will be heading home the end of March and hoping for an uneventful trip, should be back the first week of April. See you all soon!
February 17, 2008
I am sorry to hear the weather has been so cold at home. We have been very busy here. The horses are doing well. Banker upgraded at the last event, and is now a Training level horse. I will try to send a little movie clip with this newsletter –hopefully, it comes through ok. His dressage was quite nice –the best test he has ever done, and I was pleased with it, however, the judge did not like it as well as I did and it did not score as well as the previous event. The cross-country went well. He dragged me through the water where the route was actually more difficult for Training than Prelim as it was a drop over a roll top in and a bending line out. Banker loves water! He did have one run out at a ditch which came up quickly after a solid oxer in the trees, so it just caught him by surprise. He is a careful horse and doesn't like surprises! He was clear in stadium as usual and overall did a good job of his move up to this level of increased height and difficulty.
We have been doing lessons with Leslie Law who is the Olympic gold medalist for Eventing, which have been great. We have also been fortunate enough to be working with Beth Underhill in show jumping. Wrayna, the big black Hanoverian mare, has made a good impression and been a lot of fun in those lessons. We have gone to a couple of jumper shows to school more stadium rounds and even won a bit of money! She is a lot of fun to jump. Legs has just started back to work after a bit of down time for bruised heel from the first event. He felt great yesterday and is scheduled to go Training at the event this weekend at the Florida Horse Park. The Alberta High Performance clinic is this week as well, and he is on track for that. Lorraine LaFramboise will be conducting sessions for the Alberta riders in all the disciplines (dressage, show jumping and cross country), and we have a day scheduled at Longwood on Wednesday. That is the beautiful training center for the U.S. Equestrian Team, so we are very privileged to be able to go there.
Teddy has been riding Gabby, and doing a super job. He went to his first jumper show yesterday, and won several ribbons including a 3rd in the 3' jumper round. At first, he was a quite nappy and didn't want to go in the gate and leave the other horses, but we gave him a cookie after his third round while he was still in the ring, and it was like magic! He never so much as turned an ear after that! -marched right in every time and jumped around – all for a little cookie at the end of the round – I have never seen a horse so food oriented that one small treat completely turns his attitude around for the rest of the day! It has not been a common training practice for me, but it sure seems to work with Gabby –so maybe I need to try it more often!!! It was quite funny to see.
Some great news – Hannah, who has been working very hard here and doing a great job has decided to stay on with Sandridge Stables for the summer. She is going to bring her young horse back and get him started. I am sure everyone who knows her will be happy that she is going to be with us a little longer!
Whew-pretty crazy week! From a jumper show last weekend to the Alberta High Performance Clinic this week, finishing with the Ocala Winter 2 Horse Trials, the pace never slackened. I think I'll change Legs' name to Clark Kent, the mild-mannered, unassuming guy who steps into a telephone booth (aka the start box) and blazes out as Superman to do good. Legs came back from a bit of time off due to his bruised heel and left no doubt as to his intentions to be a big time horse. He wants to go to Rolex! He likes to show off a bit in dressage and is then went out cross country and charged around the very big and technical Training course, having a great time and taking no notice of anything. With one rail in show jumping, which was a pilot error and not to be blamed on the horse, we finished in 8th place in such prestigious company as Leslie Law and Darren Chiaccia. Banker is improving in dressage as well and can look quite special. We have been trying to find a bit he likes better than the plain snaffle. The trouble is, he doesn't like to be told anything, so it really doesn't matter what bit it is! He came out of the start box for cross country like a crazy thing and all I could do was sit there for the first half of the course. Unfortunately however, after that, he didn't like the look of the the big hanging log down into the sunken road and we were eliminated. He is still pretty green at the Training level and hadn't come across anything like that before. A few more schoolings needed here. We have another event this weekend upcoming so he will have a chance to redeem himself.
January 28, 2008
Well we made it through the first event. It has been cold and rainy here – not very Florida-like. Not that I would whine to all of you at home with the temperatures you have been enduring. Just don't want you to think we are whooping it up on some beach somewhere. The first event was at Rocking Horse – near Altoona. We get up at 5:00 or shortly afterwards in the morning -no time for breakfast, and clean stalls in the dark and load horses, drive through fog and rain with the truck defogger fan not working and the windows open to clear the windshields. So far we are having fun! With three horses and two students, the schedule over two days was crazy, however, Wrayna managed to hurt her chest on a post in the paddock, so she will not be going after all and the schedule is easier, but we are disappointed.
Legs put in a good dressage test and places 4th with some nice comments from the dressage judge. Banker's main claim to fame was the fact that he didn't buck during the warm up or test. He has been very naughty since we got here and at one point it was suggested maybe we needed a cowboy and/or gun to cure him. Many of you will remember Teddy Leatherman who came and spent about 6 weeks with us last summer. She rode Gabby who was so lovely in the warm up that she anticipated a great test. Unfortunately, he was the last horse of the day and once all the other horses left, he suffered a herd deprivation attack and totally blew his cool! Poor Teddy did her best, but the comment from the judges was "gamely ridden"! Stadium jumping saw Legs getting a bit green and taking two rails, and Banker being the star of the day with a clear round. It was really hard luck for Gabby to be drawn as the last horse of the day at his very first show, and after a brilliant warm up in a group, he was alone again in the show jump field, acting out his anxiety and could not be coaxed anywhere near any of the jumps!
Cross country the following day started in the rain again, but it tapered off before we went out and both horses went clear, so I was very pleased. Gabby had not been allowed out on course due to not getting around show jumping, so Teddy was not very happy with him. He is going to go to a jumper show this week to get over his little tantrums, because he showed us there is a brilliant horse in there.
The first event now over, we have hopefully got the rust knocked off and are looking forward to even better performances next weekend. Gabby showed us he can be superb, we found Legs had bruised a heel, so had been a little reluctant to jump on it, while Banker has graduated to a massage therapist and chiropractor from the gun toting cowboy! He finished 9th and Legs was 10th in very good competition.
We were lucky enough to be able to get in with Leslie Law (current Olympic Gold Medallist) for jumping lessons, so are looking forward to that this week. We also have been invited as a member of the Alberta High Performance Team to a team coaching day at Longwood, the training center of the US Olympic Team which is only 15 minutes away. After that, we will have coaching support from Lorraine, Laframboise, our Alberta HP coach, for the next event at the Florida Horse Park.
Hopefully all is going well at home for all of you. This is the time of year to train the basics and work hard on all the faults we want to improve. Quiet winters do offer the luxury of time to train and school without the pressure of competition, so I hope you are working hard with Erin and I look forward to seeing your improvements when I get home. The rider tests will be coming up soon and there is a lot to do to prepare. I will be confirming the date with an evaluator soon and will make sure it is posted on the board. Hannah is working hard and sends a big hello to everyone. Even though it may be fun working in Florida, there are no days off here!
I do appreciate hearing from all of you. My email responses may not be as timely as I would like since we are basically camping. In order to access the internet, I have to take the laptop out to the barn alleyway where I can connect to the wireless network. Generally that is late evening or early morning when we are not working horses or doing chores etc. and it has often been raining or cold in the last two weeks. Yes, it gets cold here, not as cold as at home of course – but too cold and/or wet to sit outside with a computer on your knees in the dark! Barns here are not built fully enclosed like they are at home, but open to the air usually with a roof. Ventilation is considered more important here than insulation!
Take care everyone, we are thinking of you all, Tricia & Hannah
January 23, 2008
Hi to Everyone:
This year, I thought I would stay in touch with a short newsletter. After making this long drive for so many years, I know that I prefer ones that do not have the element of adventure, so hoping for an uneventful trip, we set off Sunday morning. The weather and roads were good until Saskatchewan where it was pretty much white knuckle all the way into Regina on ice. We overnighted there in order to arrive at the US border when it opened on Monday. That was the last night's sleep for several days and we headed out in the morning with no problems getting through customs except that Barry lost his eggs. I knew they don't allow most things, so didn't bother to take any groceries – actually, I had no time to shop anyways.
Through North Dakota, Hannah drove for a short time to get experience in a less busy environment. About 45 minutes later, we decided to switch back and of course fell behind the 2 other rigs we were travelling with. In the course of catching up, I was stopped for speeding, but fortunately the Highway Patrol realized I was travelling in convoy, and they sympathetically gave me only a $35.00 ticket! Only in North Dakota!
After that things went pretty well until we were almost through St. Louis. Becky from the rig behind me radioed to say she saw my spare tire fall off and roll across 6 lanes of busy freeway. I looked in the rearview and radioed back that I could still see my spare tire on it's mount. We stopped to look. My entire left rear wheel was missing from the trailer! That was quite a shock of course Since the studs were stripped off from the hub, this was more than just a simple flat tire, and would require so some real repairs. We pulled off at the next exit and amazingly the first person I spoke to was a guy who worked at a tire shop who had just gotten off work and took us back to his shop and fixed us up in no time. All fixed again and heading down the road again, it wasn't more than 15 minutes later, a road sign had blown across the road in front of me and in heavy traffic it was impossible to avoid. I hit the angle iron with a loud crash noise. As I went to use my phone to alert the others who were further behind, I realized I must have left it behind at the last stop and turned off the road. A man signaled me frantically and as I rolled down the window, he told me I had 2 flat tires!!! Crap!!! Miraculously, however, he also worked at a tire shop and had just gotten off work!!! Really –you can't make this stuff up! He called out the mobile unit and had us fixed up and back on the road in short order!
The rest of the trip went smoothly enough. No more overnight stops-we just pulled off the road when we were too tired to keep driving and napped until we were fresh enough to go on. The horses all travelled very well and we arrived Wednesday night at the farm in Ocala. The next several days were spent cleaning up the rigs, setting up our stalls and tack room and clipping horses. We lunged the horses lightly yesterday and will finally get on today for a hack. Then tomorrow it is full swing into the schooling schedule. We have our first event in just a couple weeks on the 26th. I'll send another newsletter after that. Meantime, I am just a mouse click or phone call away if anyone needs me. My Edmonton cell phone is being forwarded down here and my usual email address will still contact me.
Cheers, Tricia
October 24, 2007
What a great summer we have had!!! We just got back home from the inaugural Aspen Farms Horse Trials at Jonathan and Suzy Elliott's new farm in Yelm, Washington. What a fabulous event! They have just put in new courses from Beginner Novice to Prelim and will be adding an Inter mediate by June. Legs (aka Soldato Alto) and Banker (Whata Bankroll) both went. When I entered a bit late, Jonathan advised I probably wouldn't get in as they were full. However, a number of cancellations later, I found myself on the accepted list. By this time, I felt slightly reluctant as the previous trip (20 hours driving one way) was still fresh in mind and I had had only 2 days at home in October due to attending the Equine Canada Technical Delegate clinic in Maple Ridge right after getting home from the Northwest Fall Gala Horse Trials in Rainier, Washington the previous weekend. Things were feeling a bit hectic!
I was so glad to have gone, however as the Aspen Farms Show was not only all I thought it would be, but is looking likely to become an important destination event. The courses were challenging but so beautifully built, I could hardly wait to jump them. Apparently my horses thought so too since they both jumped brilliantly.
Legs was doing his second Training Horse Trials and only his 4th Horse trials in his career. He felt like an advanced horse. Despite the torrential rain that fell for the two days before the course, he was bold and balanced and fast without being crazy. We were almost 30 seconds under time without even trying. I could put him at the fences right where I wanted him and turn on a dime afterwards to take an inside line. He loves his job and I'm still grinning from ear to ear. He would go Prelim tomorrow – not that I really want to make another 20 hour drive right about now! I'm anxious to move him up in Florida.
Banker has become quite settled and is tremendous fun to jump. Although his dressage score was not good enough to place, he is really trying. When he gets it right, he is very fancy! He always goes clear in stadium and is making short work of the cross country at this level. At a comfortable gallop, and balancing for all the fences, we were almost a minute fast! It is time for him to move up as well! He finished the event on his dressage score and is ready for Training very soon.
August 6, 2007
Montana Report-Rebecca Farm Horse Trials
The Sandridge Stables contingent has just arrived back from the Rebecca Farm World Cup Event in Montana. I took Amazing Legacy to his first CIC* and Theodora Leatherman from Washington has been up in Alberta training with me for the summer and she rode Butter II in the Training Division. Cindy Brouwer from Rocky Mountain House and her horse Wharf also competed in the Training Division. Theodora and Butter were placed 4th after dressage and sailed fault-free around the big cross-country course. They then produced a double clear show jump round to move up to 2nd for the final placing. Cindy, rode her best dressage test yet and Wharf also ran beautifully around the cross-country course with no faults. While the show jump course took it's toll with many rails down, Cindy and Wharf produced another double clear to finish in 5th place overall. What a well-deserved result for these two dedicated horse girls.
While declared for the CCI since February, it was not certain that Legacy would run. A change of division to the CIC* was necessary as it was not possible to ask him to run steeplechase and roads and tracks at this point. With an abcess, followed up by a nasty overreach and then sore heels, it didn't look as if he was going at all. At the last possible moment, with farrier Ken Galbraith's magic touch and some equithane pads, he got in the trailer to make the trip. I had concerns that we had not been able to do the necessary homework on skinnies, corners etc, but we were entered, and it seemed a shame to miss the best event of the season for a little thing like that!
Dressage schooling prior to competition day, went superbly, and I was expecting a good test, but with only a half hour warm up planned, things went awry when disappointingly, the water truck showed up for 20 minutes of it! Legacy doesn't like trucks of any kind, and still pouting in the ring, I could not get him to put in his best effort.
And how was Legacy cross-country? A bit green, but Amazing! Although we had couple of misses on skinnies after drops, he really showed his stuff out there and galloped and jumped beautifully. He made the big jumps feel like nothing more than canter strides and galloped easily around the track. With a chance to put in place the schooling on the technical questions, he is going to be a fantastic cross-country horse! As for soundness, I had decided I would pull him immediately if anything seemed wrong, but he never looked back. Despite very little work for the six weeks prior to the event, he came into the vet check with one of the best temperature and heart rates of any of the horses, prompting compliments about his conditioning program!! He trotted up beautifully for the final jog, and finished the competition sounder than ever.
With a few rails down in stadium, he completed his first CCI* and we will go home to work on the improvements. We are planning on doing Twin Rivers and Galway in California this fall. Now that I have seen how good he can be, I am going to work on putting it all together for the next event.


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Washington's attorney general wants to have legal power to crack down on gangs that prosecutors in California already possess.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist wants it too.
In 2004, a gang called the Bulldogs menaced a neighborhood in Fresno, Calif. Graffiti covered buildings. Thugs loitering outside a convenience store demanded payment to allow shoppers inside. Visitors leaving the Chaffee Zoo would find their cars broken into.
That's how Greg Anderson, chief deputy district attorney of Fresno County, describes what was happening. Then, Anderson says: "It just disappeared. It just stopped."
Gang activity didn't go away completely. But in early 2005, major crimes as measured by FBI statistics dropped 35 percent from a year earlier in that part of town, Anderson said.
He gives the credit to the civil injunction his office obtained against the Bulldogs – a legal order that prohibited gang members from doing any of a long list of activities in the neighborhood.
Now, Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna has asked the Legislature to create a kind of restraining order for gang members that is similar to the orders domestic violence victims file against their abusers.
If he succeeds, authorities could obtain an order from a judge that would limit a gang member's otherwise legal behavior in so-called "protection zones," neighborhoods or cities where the gang operates.
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Moses Credille appeared on property tax lists for Greene County, Georgia as early as 1798, and again in 1806, 1809, and 1810 through 1815. He was listed as a single poll without property, and several times defaulted on the poll tax. His birth year is just an estimate based on his appearance on a tax list in 1798 and the fact that he apparently married sometime in the 1805-1810 period.
One record suggests that he died in late 1818 in Greene County, Georgia. The index to estate records for Greene County has an entry for his estate dated December 1818, though the corresponding record itself no longer exists. An extensive file of miscellaneous estate records does, however, exist in Greene County, that suggests a death in early 1819. His widow Abigail posted bond on 5 May and was appointed administratrix of his estate on 8 March 1819.1 Abigail Credille appeared in the 1820 census of Greene County with one male aged 10-16, one male under 10, and two females under 10. These children are identified in several estate records as James Gray, Sarah Ann, Ellington, and Matilda Credille.2
Incidentally, Abigail could sign her own name and consistently spelled it as "Credille." (The clerks and others who wrote the various documents in the probate file, however, spelled the name in six different ways.)
The probate file includes an estate appraisal dated 8 May 1819. The estate consisted of notes totaling about $900, three female slaves valued at $1,500, and $500 in personal property. The file includes a number of receipts for tuition and board of the four children, as well as a few merchandise receipts for purchase of children's clothing and supplies.
In 1821, Abigail drew a lot in Henry County in the 1821 Land Lottery. She apparently moved onto this land later in the decade, as she was in the 1830 Henry County census, and appears several times in its records thereafter.
Since the move to Henry County meant that both the estate and its administrator had moved into a new jurisdiction, it was necessary to establish her legal position as administratrix of her husband's estate in the new county. On 2 May 1829 she executed a bond in Henry County for her performance as guardian "of the property of James Gray Credille, Sarah Ann Credille, Ellington Credille, and Matilda Credille, orphans of Moses Credille, deceased." On 3 May 1830 the court in Greene County "received from Henry County, where she now resides, certification that Abbigale Creddle is administrator of Moses Creddle deceased. Gray Creddle is relieved of any liability."3 She was enumerated in the 1840 census of Henry County, aged 50-60, with only one child (a male aged 20-30, undoubtedly James Gray Credille) remaining in the household. In 1850, she was enumerated in the Henry County household of her son James Gray Credille. The 1850 census gave her age as 65 and her birthplace as Georgia.
She was Abigail Davis, the daughter of James and Jane Davis of Greene County. Jane Davis left a will dated 6 December 1839 in Troup County, Georgia naming "Abigail Cridle" as a daughter. Jane Davis may have been a daughter of James and Francis Smith.
Abigail, along with her son James Gray Credille and daughters Sarah Ann Davenport and Matilda Steger, moved to Texas in the early 1850s. Presumably they traveled together, and we find her son-in-law buying 300 acres as a resident of Cass County, Texas on 30 December 1854.4 The birthplaces of her grandchildren in censuses suggest that the family was newly arrived in 1854. Children born as late as 1852 and 1854 consistently give their birthplaces as Georgia. Still another source, drawing on family history, says they arrived in 1854.5
On 8 October 1856, Abigail Credille of Cass County made a deed of gift to "my beloved daughter Sarah Ann Davenport, wife of Presley G. Davenport", of a slave, a mule, nine cows and a wagon.6 The gift was explicitly exempted from "the debts, contracts, and liabilities of her husband Presley G. Davenport." In the 1860 census of Cass County, she was again listed in the household of her son James Gray Credille. Her age was given as 75 and her birthplace this time was South Carolina rather than Georgia.
- Ellington Credille (c1809 – 1849) He married Catherine Davenport, daughter of Martin S. Davenport and sister of Presley G. Davenport, on 4 January 1831 in Clarke County, Georgia. On 8 December 1842 her father, Martin Slaughter Davenport made a gift of two slaves to his son Presley, specifying that they be given "unto my son-in-law Ellington Credille in trust for the use of said Presley, his wife and children."7 Ellington Credille died in June 1849 in Henry County, leaving the widow and seven children. The 1850 Mortality Census gives his age at death as 39 and the cause of death as typhoid fever. (He was presumably the male aged 10-16 in his mother's 1820 census household, thus we place his birth in 1809.) Catherine Credille did not remarry, and appears in the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Henry County with her minor children. In both 1870 and 1880 she was a single head of household in Henry County.The children were: James Credille 8 (c1832), Henry Credille (c1835), Matilda Credille (c1838), Cullen Credille (c1840), Joseph Credille (c1842), Nancy A. E. Credille (c1845) and Susan C. Credille (c1848).
- Matilda Credille (1812 – 1861) She married Alfred M. Steger (as descendants would later spell it) in Henry County on 22 April 1830.9 He was enumerated in Henry County in 1830, 1840, and 1850 near the Credilles and was the son of Robert M. Steger who left a will in Pike County dated in 1861 and probated in 1863 mentioning his son Alfred M. and his grandson Robert M. Steger. About 1854 the Stegers moved with Matilda's mother and siblings to Cass County, Texas where they appear in the 1860 census. Matilda died in 1861 and her husband died in 1865, and both buried in Cass County's Hickory Grove Cemetery. Her children were: James Alexander Steger10 (1831-1902), Burton Steger (1833-1879), Ellington Steger (c1837-?), Robert Moses Steger (c1840 – ?), Riley W. Steger (c1842), Allen Walter Steger (1845-1916), Catherine Steger (c1846), and Zachariah Steger (1850).
- Sarah Ann Credille (c1814 – 1874?) She was evidently the female aged 15-20 in her mother's 1830 census household. She married Presley G. Davenport on 30 September 1831 in Henry County. They appear in censuses in Henry County through 1850, then moved to Cass County, Texas by 1854. Presley and Sarah Ann had eight known childen: James Davenport (c1832-1862), Lue Davenport (c1835–c1835), Matilda Elvira Davenport (1839-1909), Jesse Dawson Davenport (c1842–1863), Moses Charles Davenport (c1845–c1878), George Washington P. Davenport (1848-1927), Unica Abigail Davenport (1849-1935), and Sidney C. Davenport (c1854–c1880).[For more on this family, see separate paper on Presley G. Davenport.]
- James Gray Credille (c1816 – 1877) He was enumerated in the 1850 census of Henry County, Georgia (age 33), the 1860 census of Cass County, Texas (age 43), and the 1870 census of Upshur County, Texas (age 53). He evidently came to Texas with his mother and siblings. He appears in a number of public records (he was County Treasurer in Upshur County and a postmaster in both Upshur and Camp County) but was not thoroughly researched. He had two wives and at least dozen children. His first wife was Elizabeth R. Paul, whom he married in Henry County on 13 April 1841.11 She was enumerated as "E. R" (age 25) in 1850 and "E" (age 35) in 1860, and by her he had eight children: sons named Wylie G. Credille (1843 -1891) and E. G. Credille (c1845 – 1860s?), and six daughters identified in the 1850-1870 censuses as H. P. Credille (c1846), L. A. Credille (c1848), Abbie Credille (c1852), Martha Credille (c1853), M. Etta Credille (c1856), and Alice Credille (1860).His first wife evidently died not long after the 1860 census, and he married second to a widow named Nancy Catherine Abernathy about 1864. By her he had at least another four children: Ella Credille (c1865), Emma Kate Credille (1867-1942), James B. Credille (1870-1939), and Minnie Credille (c1873). Nancy was head of a Camp County household in 1880 consisting of Ella, Kate, James and Minnie. In the same household was a fifth daughter aged 20 identified as Fannie Kesterson – apparently a daughter from her previous marriage. (Wylie Credille's 1880 household included his sisters Alice Credille and Mattie Mitchell.) In Nancy's 1900 census household, this daughter was identified as Fannie Roberts, a widow born September 1859 with a child of her own named Ernestine. The 1900 census indicated that Nancy had borne seven children, five of whom were still living. Her son James B Abernathy's death certificate identifies his mother as Nancy Catherine Abernathy and his father as James G. Credille.The eldest sons served together in the 14th Texas Infantry during the Civil War (along with their uncle Presley Davenport). The younger son E. G. may not have survived the war, as he could not be located in subsequent censuses or other records. James Gray Credille is buried at Leesburg Cemetery in Camp County, Texas, where his gravestone still exists.
- Greene County Inferior Court Records, p367, courtesy of the research of Jefferson Milner. Document is included in loose estate file. [↩]
- For instance, Greene County Probate Records Book H, p312. [↩]
- Greene County Inferior Court Records, p200, courtesy of the research of Jefferson Milner. Gray Credille had been the security for her performance. [↩]
- Cass County Deed Book I, p576. [↩]
- Correspondence with Charles Steger, who has written monographs mentioning the family's years in Cass County. Certainly the birthplaces of children in censuses suggest the families were still in Georgia in 1852 but were in Texas by late 1854. [↩]
- Cass County Deed Book L, p62 [↩]
- Clarke County Deed Book K, p129. [↩]
- One of the daughters of James Credille and his wife Amanda later lived near her Credille cousins in Texas. Eliza C. Credille (born1856) and her husband Samuel Kehr are both buried in Cass County. [↩]
- This name is mistranscribed as "Slegar" in published marriage records. [↩]
- Charles Steger, of Longview, believed his middle name to be "Alfred", but his widow's application for a Civil War pension seems to have his middle name as "Alexander". [↩]
- His surname is mis-transcribed in some index records. [↩]


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In November 2011, it is a dark month for me because a lot of unlucky things happened. As the saying from Richard Mead, for every bad things in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.
I coincidence saw a yellowish ball while tidying my cupboard. The ball contained a smiley face with fluid. It had recall my memory that the yellowish ball was gave from my cousin. The ball is amazing; no matter how you turn it, the smiley face will always face up.
This fun interaction had inspired me to understand the value of putting a smile even you are on difficulties situation or faced an obstacles. So, it is my turn to make this fun interaction message into visual graphic and spread it around through sticker bombing method.
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First Repressions: Strange Geometry
We want to think our favorite artists get us, but maybe that's only a projection. Maybe we just want to imagine, because we like a particular songwriter, that he/she can empathize and make us feel less alone. That's certainly I how feel with Alasdair MacLean and his band, The Clientele.
But maybe it's not merely a projection, especially in the case of the band's 2005 album, Strange Geometry. Just listen to MacLean's wispy, lachrymose delivery and how he uses tremolo in every song. Listen to Louis Philippe's precious string arrangements. Heck, just look at the tracklisting, and it becomes apparent why this album was so special and devastating. With titles like "Since K Got Over Me," "(I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine," "When I Came Home from the Party," "Impossible," and worst of all, "E.M.P.T.Y.," the songs hit way too close to home for me. The album is perfect.
You, discerning music lover, can certainly find many more gushing reviews of initial release of Strange Geometry. But this is a review for a reissue, a case for the album's recontextualization in 2016. You see, new vinyl is everywhere these days, so it's easy to forget a time when that wasn't the case. A time when internet stores were still a novelty and Borders was known for its great selection of CDs. If you got lucky, perhaps you could find a used copy of that new life-changing CD at one of the few independent record stores still open in the Kansas City area.
See, The Clientele is an obscure British band licensed to an independent record label in America. Tracking down the CD proved difficult after a friend shared the MP3s with me via AOL Instant Messenger in 2005. (You can imagine the elation I felt when I finally found the CD for $5.99 at Missing Link in Indianapolis.) I knew that finding it on vinyl, an even more rare format for new releases back then, was out of the question.
A decade later, I've benefitted from, not necessarily fallen prey to, the recent trend of reissuing albums on vinyl. Except that it's not exactly a trend, nor is it recent. Every time a new technology (radio, blank tapes, file sharing, etc.) seems to threaten record labels' revenue streams, songs are repackaged as albums, double albums, boxsets or whatever.
But sometimes labels reissue albums to make them available again after years of being out-of-print (and potentially expensive on the secondhand market). I think that's the case with Merge's reissue of Strange Geometry. Fans of rainy day music no long need to cough up 40 or 50 bucks for a first pressing of the album on Discogs. And not only is the album available again, but the label has also bundled it with a download of a bonus EP. (No, the extra songs aren't exactly necessary or revelatory, but they are beautiful.)
So embrace the limitations again of the physical LP. When the side two is finished, refill your cup of coffee and flip over the record again.


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yesterday's post it struck me that you might not be aware of the meaning of the phrase "ravno mi je sve".That's why I chose the word RAVAN = flat / even / equal as the topic of today's post:
- nekome je sve ravno ( do Kosova )= it's all the same ; it makes no difference
example: Uradi kako ti je drago - meni je sve ravno (do Kosova) !
translation: Do as you please - it makes no difference to me !
example from the song: Ravno mi je sve : because of the word "mi" this phrase means that he is indifferent, while the sentence before he means literally "ravno, nigde brda" = flat, no hill around
- ravan kao dlan = as flat as a pancake
example: Vojvodina je ravna kao dlan. (Vojvodina is as flat as a pancake.)
- na ravnoj nozi = on an equal footing; on equal terms
example: Razgovarali smo o svemu na ravnoj nozi (We talked about everything on equal terms)
- na ravne časti = share and share alike; even Stephen
example: Sve što zaradimo delimo na ravne časti (Everything we earn we share and share alike)
example: Kao lekaru nema mu ravna (As a doctor he is second to none.)
- nema mu ravna = without a peer; second to none


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A New Callas
Maria Callas Remastered: The Complete Studio Recordings, 1949–1969
Maria Callas converted me to opera. I am sure I am not unique in this, except in the particulars. In my early college years I immersed myself in recordings of the nineteenth-century symphonic repertory—Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, the Russians—but for a long time I refused to listen to opera, would listen to an overture and then rush to change the record before the singing started. Then one day my roommate put the 1953 Tosca with Callas on the turntable and dropped the needle onto "Vissi d'arte." I had no idea what she was singing, but near the conclusion of that imploring aria, as she comes to the end of the arching wordless phrase that soars from an A down slightly to a G, there is an audible intake of breath. She gasps—or is it a sob?
Maybe she misjudged her breathing, but I can no more assess it in such terms now than I could then. It sounded—it still sounds—to me like pure emotion. I didn't need to know, at that moment, that Tosca was asking God why, despite all her devotion to art, to the Virgin, she was being forced to submit to the advances of the Roman police chief in order to save her lover from execution. That gasp—not a note, not even something musical—opened up an operatic world to me, a world of feeling pushed to an extreme, that in large measure became defined for me by Callas.
Yet if I hadn't been hooked by a gasp, I would eventually have been hooked by her way with something else—a word, a phrase, an aria, an entire scene. For what made Callas a great singer was her fierce commitment to the voice as a means of dramatic expression. This must be stressed: her fame as an artist came not from gossip about her temper or her cancellations or her relationship with Aristotle Onassis. She was not great because of her "acting," some mesmerizing physical gestures that we must trust those who actually saw her to verify. If that was primarily what she brought to her performances, she would be a dim legend by now. (The few extant videos of her that we have—mostly in recital—suggest rather how inward her identification with her characters was, how restrained her gestures onstage must have been.)
It is the other way around. Callas was a great actress because she was a great musician, because she understood that for a singer the drama is above all in the voice: in phrasing, in shaping the vocal line, in executing a perfect descending scale, in giving every word—even, or especially, in recitatives—its proper emphasis. Nothing is passed over, nothing ignored or slighted. (Listen, for example, to the monastery scene from Verdi's La Forza del Destino: you need only to hear her…
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Getting an education is one of the most valuable tools a person may have into proving a better future for themselves. However, every tool comes with a cost and sometimes that pricetag may be a little too large for one's budget. This is where student loans come in. Yes, student loans are similar to debt. Yes, student loans can be intimidating. No, you shouldnt be scared of them. Here are the top 5 reasons why student may be scared of student loans.
1. They have to take out a lot of money in loans
It is no surprise that college has become increasingly expensive. More and more students are wanting to get higher education and in order to facilitate the influx of students many new expenses must be taken on. In order to balance out those costs student must pay, literally. Student loan debt has increased tremendously over the past ten years. It used to be you may only have to take out a couple thousand in loans for school however some people have to take out tens of thousands of loans each year to pay for their education.
2. They may have to take out multiple loans
Since students are needing so much more money to pay for school, they may not feel comfortable taking out all of their loans from one place. Students can be fearful of having a large amount of debt in one area so they may try to spread their financial need into a student loan and multiple private loans.
3. They need someone to cosign loans
One of the great things about college is freedom. The ability to know that you are taking care of yourself and are being adult. However, having to cosign loans with a parent may make students feel as if they are losing part of their independence.
4. They don't know how to repay loans
Before taking out loans students should be doing the necessary research on how much they take, the interest rate, and a repayment plan. However, it is hard to keep track of all of these things and figure out how to make money while pursuing their education full time.
5. They are unsure of the future
It is easy to borrow two dollars from a friend for a cup of coffee because you know that you have the money to repay it readily available. Lots of students are unsure of how they are going to pay for rent, utilities, and food post- graduation, much less student loans. The fear of having debt looming over their head for extended periods of time may draw students away from student loans.
Fear shouldn't be a roadblock for getting a good education and money shouldn't be a deterrent from pursuing a degree. Student loans can help if you manage them properly, and if not there are people here to help.


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Recent price: 22.09$
P/E Ratio: 15.99
3 Months Target Price: 26$
Company Description
Safeway Inc. is a food and drug retailer in North America. As of January 1, 2011, the Company had 1,694 stores. The Company's the United States retail operations are located in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, the Chicago metropolitan area and the Mid-Atlantic region. The Company's Canadian retail operations are located in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba/Saskatchewan. In support of its retail operations, the Company has network of distribution, manufacturing and food-processing facilities. Safeway owns and operates GroceryWorks.com Operating Company, LLC (GroceryWorks), an online grocery channel doing business under the names Safeway.com, Vons.com and Genuardis.com (collectively Safeway.com). Safeway also has a 49% ownership interest in Casa Ley, S.A. de C.V. (Casa Ley), which operates 168 food and general merchandise stores in Western Mexico.
Confidence Margins
Strong resistance $27.04 (+22%)
Light resistance $25.43 (+15%)
Light support $21.30 (-4%)
Strong support $20.44 (-7%)
This company has seen it's share of drama over the last weeks over it's credit facility and shares of Safeway Inc have been surrendered by shareholders. Current prices offers a good entry point to investors as it accounts for all the accumulated pessimism currently present in the market.
Entry strategy
For the cautious investor:
Buy the stock for 22.50$ or less.
For the risk-taking trader:
The september 2011 23$ out-of-the-money call option contract seems to be the right position to take, they can be acquired for about 80$ per contract.
Exit Strategy
For the cautious investor:
Sell when the stock reaches 26$, or keep it until 27$ if you are more bullish in your own analysis.
For the risk-taking trader:
The contracts should be kept until the underlying reaches 26$. This should provide a very interesting return if the underlying reaches the target price as the contracts will get in the money.


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The U.S. should have Universal health care
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Before we begin, I would like to define Universal Healthcare. Universal health care — sometimes referred to as universal health coverage, universal coverage, universal care or social health protection — usually refers to a health care system which provides health care and financial protection to all its citizens. It is organized around providing a specified package of benefits to all members of a society with the end goal of providing financial risk protection, improved access to health services, and improved health outcomes.[2] Universal health care is not a one-size-fits-all concept; nor does it imply coverage for all people for everything. Universal health care can be determined by three critical dimensions: who is covered, what services are covered, and how much of the cost is covered. The first round is acceptance and we are debating whether the U.S. should have Universal Healthcare.
Universal Healthcare should be established in America for the following reasons. First of all, Universal healthcare provides basic, satisfactory healthcare to those who can least afford it. For example, if a homeless person got stabbed and needed urgent medical help, a country such as England or Canada would give emergency aid and it wouldn't cost a cent. In fact, in Canada, the only thing you have to pay for is perscribed drugs and medical casts. Also in 2001 study in the U.S., up to 46.2 percent of bankruptcies were because of Medical debt. This was when the economy was decent.Does the U.S. really need anymore debt than we're in right now? Medicare helps lower debt since you do not have to pay for the majority of medical expenses. Universal Healthcare works in a number of countries and would help the U.S. socially and economically. Not only that, but it is fair and equitable for everybody.It certainly would help the U.S and I don't see how America's current health care system would be any better than Universal Healthcare.
No problem my fellow opponent, I realize that everyone has busy schedules, including myself. Nevertheless, I will continue to back up my previous arguments and also introduce new ideas. Universal Health Care ideally works to improve the overall health of a nation by covering everybody. As I mentioned before, Universal health care does not cover eveything such as prescripted drugs in countries such as Canada. In Canada, Universal Healthcare is funded through cash and tax transfers from the provinces and territories to help pay for health services. Therefore, Universal health care would improve the overall health of a nation such as the U.S. and would also help the U.S economically by decreasing medical debt. Universal health care is better than the current health system in the U.S in three fundamental aspects. It covers virtually everybody, covers more services, and covers one hundred percent of the cost for health services. Universal health care is successful in a number of countries, so there is ample evidence that it could work in the United State. Universal Healthcare works in a number of countries, so there is ample evidence that it would work in the U.S. The question I ask to my opponent is: " Why shouldn't the U.S. have Universal Healthcare?"
JonL forfeited this round.
It is unfortunate that my opponent forfeited this round. My only question i this: "Why shouldn't the U.S. have a health care system covers every medical service except prescribed drugs for every man, woman and child, regardless of their financial circumstance or age. Therefore, I conclude that Universal Health Care is better that America's current health system and is even the best type of health care system in the world. I urge voters to vote pro for obvious reasons.
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It was fair of them to put the showdances in the first half, this year. Normally there's a couple who rehearse all week and don't get to perform, which is a shame. They were curious, though. Matt and Aliona were kinda stop-starty, and Pamela and James were a bit flat. But Kara and Artem were the strangest. She's perhaps the most graceful and elegant non-pro dancer Strictly has ever seen, but was stuck doing gymnastics and looking unsteady. I think they tried too hard.
Still, though: Kara's rumba. Goodness me. She's still the front-runner overall, imho, but tonight she's only a little ahead of Pamela. Performance-wise, Matt should probably be the first to go.
Yes! Result. Kinda a shame it wasn't a Pamela / Kara battle at the end, but Kara worthy winner. Waltz was perfectly nice (hard to be flashy in the waltz), but the American Smooth was completely lovely. Especially as she was injured.
Definitely the most nervous I've been in the finale for a few years – probably since Mark Ramprakash in S4. I mostly hid behind a cushion. Best series since then, too. Quite possibly better, but I have a soft spot for S4 due to being there.
Things of note:
- I think half the country – including me – was yelling at Artem to kiss her.
- Craig was spot-on with his marks and comments all series, imho.
- Bruno has a truly inspired way with words (genuinely – I think he's great).
- Don't have anything against Alesha, but it wouldn't surprise me if she disappeared next series.
- Katya.
- Tess and Claudia are both remarkably good at handling large groups of people, on live tv. I've never seen either stumble.
Sad now. Saturdays now less sparkly, and evenings Claudia-less. Still. Good times.


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Jeremy Lin
Jeremy Lin: Faith, Joy, and Basketball
The Most Surprising Sports Hero of Our Time
From avid sports fans to casual culture-watchers, it seems no one can get enough of Jeremy Lin. He captured the attention of the nation in just a few weeks' time as he went from unknown underdog to rescuer of the woebegone New York Knicks. Everything from his race (Asian-American) to his alma mater (Harvard) has made Lin one of the most unusual sports stars in years. But what forces have shaped Jeremy Lin into who he is today, and what motivates him to keep striving toward his goals?
Bestselling, award-winning author Ted Kluck uses his unique backgrounds in sports writing and faith writing to uncover the fascinating world of an out-of-nowhere star who continues to surprise.
Ted Kluck is a freelance writer specializing in sports and faith. He has written eight books, including Dallas and the Spitfire, and his work has appeared in such places as ESPN the Magazine, and Christianity Today. His first book won a Christianity Today Book of the Year award. Ted lives in Grand Ledge, Michigan, with his wife and two sons.


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Why is it that common sense is resisted to such a degree that it comes at the expense of financial performance? There are two culprits.
By Matt Classen
What, exactly, does "Employee Experiential" mean? On March 10th, 2017, Jacob Morgen published an article (Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little) for the Harvard Business Review (HBR). In the article, Mr. Morgen rightly talks about why, despite companies spending incredible sums of money on employee engagement programs, these programs ultimately deliver very short-term performance results and "abysmal" employee engagement surveys.
Mr. Morgen goes on to further explain that companies that look to long-term engagement programs, essentially creating an employee experience, or "Employee Experiential", is the only way to go. Thankfully, Mr. Morgen provided two fantastic graphics: the first clearly shows how "Employee Experiential" companies perform far better than even companies listed on Glassdoor Best Places to Work and Fortune Best Companies to Work For, when taking stock price into account. The second shows evidence detailing undeniably superior financial returns on investment for those organizations that engage in "Employee Experience" than those that do not. Here are those graphics:
Are the above graphics actually news?
As I write this, I'm finding it almost incredible to believe that it takes an article in HBR, citing two compelling statistics, to legitimize the fundamental common sense that any human being with a pulse should already understand instinctively. Let me put it in biblical terms: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Sound familiar? It's called the Golden Rule, stupid. This rule is more relevant now than ever. After all, much of our economy in Knowledge-based, right? Knowledge-based companies operating in a knowledge-based economy should have the common sense to realize that the knowledge-based worker needs to be stimulated on multiple levels in order to maintain maximum engagement. If the "Employee Experiential" ethos clearly delivers a significant return on investment, why the devil do articles like Mr. Morgen's (or my response to it) even need to be written in the first place? By now, this would be the same as if I were to report that the sky is blue and then actually get space in HBR for my profound insights. With this fundamental truth, would it not make sense for leadership within Knowledge-based orgs to really, deeply consider what it takes to activate people's inspiration while at work? This seems to be a complete no-brainer, but here we are.
There are two reasons why leaders are so slow on the uptake with regards to employee engagement through the "Employee Experiential" model: human ego and apathy.
1. The pervasive ego within the "leadership class"
Like it or not, most of the "leaders" who hold leadership positions are still very much operating within an Industrial Era mindset, rather than an Information Knowledge Age one. The Industrial Era leadership mindset (which I wrote about in a previous article) is one where leaders view people as commodities (e.g. "Human Resources") who are there to perform basic, repetitive functions much like we use machinery to accomplish today. The mantra of "just do your job and don't ask questions" was/is the prevailing attitude. The Information Knowledge Age turns that mindset on its head. Employees (aka "Co-Creators) working within Knowledge-based businesses have (on average) received a higher education, been told that their insights and know-how are important and grown up in democratic societies which tell them that their voices matter. In short, "employees" want to know that their insights matter and that they need to be taken seriously. This poses a direct threat to those occupying leadership positions because they're the ones who are supposed to have the monopoly on knowledge and know-how. Leadership within the Industrial Era mindset would never want to empower human engagement since it poses such a direct threat to their own need for hegemony.
By providing the "employee experiential" model for real engagement, leadership is basically destabilizing its hold on power because it would share the nexus of strength with employees. Leaders in Knowledge-based organizations who truly get this, and why it's to their benefit to use it, will work with that flow rather than against it by providing an "employee experiential" model for engagement. On the other hand, Industrial Era leaders working within Knowledge-based organizations will resist an "Employee Experiential" model tooth and nail. Why? Simple: It threatens their ego too much to be taken seriously. Instead they'll take the half-ass measures to which Mr. Morgen refers in his article and call it good. The problem is, and to quote Mr. Morgen, "The more this cycle repeats itself, the more it feels like manipulation. People begin to recognize the short-term fixes for what they really are." With this in mind, let me ask some rhetorical questions:
- Do you like being manipulated?
- How would you feel about your organization if it became clear its leadership was manipulating you?
- How much more likely would it be that you would look for a different place to work, or one that did not have a reputation for manipulating its employees?
- Does it cost money for organizations to replace one dissatisfied employee, let alone the many who would search for greener pastures once they began to feel manipulated?
- Will this affect an organization's reputation in a negative way?
- Will a negative reputation adversely effect an organization's brand strength?
- Will an organization with poor brand strength be able to attract top talent?
- Will poor brand strength open the door for an organization's competitors to supply the demand that it is negligent in supplying?
- Can organization's with poor brand strength charge a premium for improved profit margins?
I could go on with the rhetorical questions, but suffice it to say that you probably get the point. Providing an "Employee Experiential" mindset within an organization is a no-brainer.
2. Leadership apathy
And of course, there is leadership apathy. This simply means that leaders are super busy now-a-days and it becomes easy to focus on other things. For organizations that do not already have the "Employee Experiential" mindset as a part of their brand identity mindset, instilling one would take significant time and dedication. With all the things most leaders have to focus on, this kind of project is huge, let alone daunting. With this kind of emotional barrier to entry, its easy to understand why leadership would balk at wanting to really, truly, create the "Employee Experiential" model within the organization. That said, leaders are there to facilitate maximum profitability. To not create an "Employee Experiential" environment, especially with such clear indicators for why it's a no-brainer to institute (e.g. dramatically enhanced financial performance), represents apathy.
So there's my rant. We can be grateful to Mr. Morgen for writing this article and for HBR for featuring it on their well respected website. Perhaps the more readers are exposed to the simple, no-brainer, common sense for the "Employee Experiential" model to employee engagement within Knowledge-based organizations, the more employees, organizations and whole societies will reap the rewards.


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April 26, 2016
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Gulls have announced special promotions taking place during Games 3 and 4 of their first round Calder Cup Playoff series against the Texas Stars. These will be the first American Hockey League home playoff games in team history.
On Thursday, the Gulls will host Game 3 against the Stars. The best-of-five series is tied at 1-1 after the Gulls split the opening two games on the road in Cedar Park, Texas. For Game 3, the Gulls will be hosting a Pregame NFL Draft Watch Party in Valley View Casino Center. The North entrance will open early at 4:50pm to allow fans to watch the first round of the NFL Draft on the video board and in the Stella Artois Lounge. Special $5 Bud Light drafts and $3 hot dogs will be available from when doors open until the puck drops at 7:05pm.
In addition, the first 5,000 fans on Thursday will receive a free 2015-16 team poster. Limited edition #ProtectTheNest playoff signs will also be available for free in limited quantities.
On Friday, the Gulls will hold their popular $2 Bud Light promotion for Game 4. The discount will be available from when doors open at 5pm until 8pm. In addition, the first 3,000 fans will receive a free Willie O'Ree rally towel courtesy of Cal Coast Credit Union. Puck drop is at 7:05pm.
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Young British lad, Romare is about to release a new album via Ninjatune and from what i've heard so far its super sexy. Fiercely supported by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Bonobo and Benji B this dude is doing something right. Titled Projections the tracks are described as 'homages to elements of American/African culture in the USA'. Taking his name from Romare Bearden, the well-known cut'n'paste artist / collagist, Romare adopts a very similar technique in terms of his music production. This track below titled Prison Blues is powerful to say the least. Romare has a way with samples and is able to encompass his audience in a place and time that for us almost feels like real life. Raw and primitive, this track gives you a sense of what he is trying to portray through out the whole album. Its got a nice undergound quality to it with many powerful elements and a whole lot of groove.
Projections will be available for purchase as of the 23rd of Feburary. You can also pre order it here via Ninjatune.


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After playing the role of personal companion, salesbot, as well as a student and English teacher, Pepper, the humanoid robot, can officially add "seafaring concierge" to its resume.
Joining two Carnival Corporation-owned ships, Costa Cruises and AIDA, at the end of April, the 4-foot android will engage the ships' guests using its skill at reading human emotion. Pepper will start its adventure programmed to speak English, German, and Italian, and has the capability of being upgraded with additional languages at any time. Costa's Chief Digital Officer Rahul Chakkara believes this opportunity has introduced a new level of guest-crew interaction.
There are thousands of interactions between our customers and our crew every hour. And we realized that our customer habits were changing significantly, and we needed to respond. In Europe, you have the additional complexity of these interactions happening in different languages. The thinking was, could we bring something to complement and enhance interaction and help our customers a bit more? We looked at Pepper and said this could be something quite interesting to help us help our customers along with our crew.
According to Chakkara, Pepper will be a "full crew member," likely working in service- and labor-intensive areas. Beyond greeting passengers as they board the cruise ships, Pepper will offer dining, itinerary, and shore excursion details to the guests. Additionally, the company intends to use information gathered via guest interactions with the robot to make improvements where needed, although the collection of such raises potential security concerns.
Dr. Joanne Pransky, who has trademarked herself as "the world's first robot psychiatrist" and was dubbed the "real world Susan Calvin" by prolific science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, feels Pepper's robotic evolution will greatly benefit from the opportunity as well. "I think this is an excellent use for Pepper—to be in a controlled environment, learning and interacting with humans," she said. "By being exposed to members of various cultural societies, this will greatly help to further develop Pepper's 'emotional' skills."
With the addition of the autonomous employees, the Costa Group's CEO Michael Thamm feels the company is continuing a "tradition of innovation," noting that bringing a robot aboard the cruise ships is "an important step towards a digital future for our brands."
Pepper isn't the first robot to brave the high seas — The Royal Caribbean unveiled its android-staffed "Bionic Bar" on the Harmony of the Seas in 2014 — and certainly won't be the last. With an investment of over a million euros, Costa is intending on supplementing the staff of its ships with Pepper and other autonomous workers by this summer.


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What are superfoods?
With a lot of media hype and controversial claims and statements being made by companies, it's important to understand what superfoods are and why they stand out from other foods.
Please note that no company should be making any medicinal claims for their products unless the claim is backed up by documented, scientific research and they can readily provide this research to you when you ask for it. At Creative Nature, we make no claims that our products can cure diseases, heal ailments or perform miracles, we simply say why it is important to include our products in your diets, due to their nutritional makeup. We also include testimonials from very happy customers who have reaped the rewards of choosing Creative Nature products over other super food companies (all testimonials are word of mouth and have no scientific backing)
Will superfoods give me superpowers?
No, unfortunately.
Will they improve my health?
Yes, if used in a healthy balanced diet, alongside a healthy active lifestyle.
So what exactly are superfoods then?
Exactly that! Foods that are super in some way. Foods that have a higher level of nutritionally beneficial components than other foods. They don't have to be weird and wonderful, from the remotest parts of the world, used only in traditional medicines. They can just be food, readily available from your local shops.
The great thing about Creative Nature is we actually want to help you improve your diets, feel happier about yourselves and live to your full potential. This is why we won't tell you to only eat our products because it's essential to have a balanced diet that offers nutrients from a variety of sources.
The only thing we want to stress is the importance of quality over price. There is no point buying cheaper products if you have to buy more of them in the long run! It is far better to focus on the quality of food you put into your bodies, so that you can really feel the benefits, which is why Creative Nature only sell the highest quality, ethically sourced products.
Please look through our Vitamins and Minerals table to see what makes our products super and to see other super foods that we include in our diets and think you should too!